It’s not crazy to constantly revisit the impact of shifting things to a third party… or to the cloud in this manner.

To put a fine point on it, an engineer that can handle logging and review is not always cost effective. Even Splunk is pricey… take a look at the customer set. Those are logging heavy places when you look at those customers and all want what a hosted solution might offer them.

The explosion of secure web gateways with remote cloud based policy interrogation is on the rise. That’s corporate data flying outside in and back outside again. It’s packets.

Also, if you review what Cisco Smart Care promises [1] then you are essentially calling Cisco’s own services model for logging and event driven (proactive) planning into question.

[1] http://www.cisc...group_home.html

What are the businesses that use these services paying their IT staff for?

I can see them right now sitting around in lawn chairs outsourcing their work to firms like log logic.

I’m not saying log logic is bad, though I would shudder to think of what 1 company could do with the logs of 10000 other companies as far as corporate espionage, but back to the point, I can’t think of how a company big enough to need advanced reports would pay employees to sit there and out source their most sensitive data to “some company they found on the internet”.

LOL, executives are getting really crazy.